Re:At $75K, housing a prisoner in California now costs more ...
by tomjen3 on Friday March 22, 2019 @11:09AM
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We also want to be careful not to make rehabilitation available only to prisoners, so that nobody is tempted to commit crime to get help.
My ideal solution would be something like this: end the war on drugs, make community service a part of as many sentences as at all possible (and certainly all white collar crimes), then separate the component that are dangerous in such a way that they will have no contact with any other prisoner, so that they don't learn to be better criminals. These are the people which we will have to give up on.
Of course this proposal is politically impossible, as it pisses of all sides, but it should be possible to at least increase the number of community service sentences.
My ideal solution would be something like this: end the war on drugs, make community service a part of as many sentences as at all possible (and certainly all white collar crimes), then separate the component that are dangerous in such a way that they will have no contact with any other prisoner, so that they don't learn to be better criminals. These are the people which we will have to give up on.
Of course this proposal is politically impossible, as it pisses of all sides, but it should be possible to at least increase the number of community service sentences.